WO2010066999A1

WO2010066999A1 - Method and device for treating at least one compound carried in a liquid

Info

Publication number: WO2010066999A1
Application number: PCT/FR2009/052434
Authority: WO
Inventors: Yves Lecoffre
Original assignee: Rc - Lux
Priority date: 2008-12-09
Filing date: 2009-12-08
Publication date: 2010-06-17
Also published as: FR2939423A1; KR20110097928A; EP2355921B1; BRPI0922556B1; EP2355921A1; US9579614B2; FR2939423B1; US20110284478A1

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and to a device for treating a compound, such as a chemical and/or organic and/or microorganism compound, which is carried by a liquid, wherein: the liquid is driven axially through an axial inlet (21) into a central inlet portion of a radial cavitation chamber (18) having a peripheral outlet (30), such that the liquid is diverted into the central inlet portion and flows into the radial chamber in various radial directions towards the peripheral outlet; and the liquid flow conditions between the inlet and the peripheral outlet of the radial chamber are capable of generating cavitation bubbles or pockets (31) and subsequently causing the collapse or implosion of said bubbles or pockets in order to treat the compound at least partially.

Description

Method and device for treating at least one compound transported in a liquid

The present invention relates to the field of the treatment of compounds, such as compounds or chemical or organic species or microorganisms.

Undesirable chemical compounds are often found in polluted water, for example by volatile compounds such as hydrocarbons or chlorinated compounds (trichlorethylene for example) or by low volatility compounds such as PCBs (Polychlorobiphenyl) PCP (Pentachlorophenol) used as fungicides or certain molecules considered as endocrine disruptors. These bodies are most often carcinogenic and cause disorders in animals and men.

Currently, the destruction or transfer of these undesirable substances is done using several techniques including activated carbon adsorption, thermolysis, electrolytic reduction, irradiation by ultraviolet radiation or oxidation by chemical compounds such as ozone, peroxide or Fenton reagent. Some treatments combine many of these basic processes. In all cases, these are expensive processes and delicate implementation. Water may also contain living microorganisms such as bacteria or microscopic algae. It is often desirable to destroy them to avoid pathological effects. This destruction is done with techniques equivalent to those used for chemical compounds, for example by sterilization by chlorine or peroxide, or by ultraviolet radiation irradiation.

To carry out certain treatments, it has also been proposed the use of ultrasonic waves emitted in liquids to be treated and / or the use of cavitation inside the liquid to be treated flowing. in venturi tubes or in equivalent tubes with axial flow. Such arrangements are described in EP 1 738 775, US 2007/0280861, WO2005 / 028375).

Documents US 5,749,650, US 5,899,564 and US 2006/256645 describe treatment devices in which the liquid passes radially through annular micro-slots arranged between axially superimposed and axially adjustable rings. The liquid escapes from the slots forming radial jets which are dispersed in large peripheral evacuation spaces, these jets producing turbulence in these spaces, without cavitation pocket formation.

US 6,200,486 discloses a device which comprises an inner cylindrical wall having orifices and an outer cylindrical wall, forming a large gap therebetween. As in the documents cited in the preceding paragraph, the flow at the outlet of the orifices is in the form of jets in this large space.

US 4,585,357 discloses a device which comprises a radial micro-slot in front of which is installed, at a great distance, a deflection wall. Here again, the flow through the slit produces dispersion jets.

JP 11 42432 discloses a device in which two opposite flows collide. The resulting flow flows radially and is discharged into a peripheral evacuation chamber, again in the form of dispersion jets. DE 3728946 discloses a device in which an axial flow is deflected to a radial chamber which has a peripheral opening. This chamber is frustoconical and formed so that its thickness is reduced by going outwards. Turbulence effects occur only beyond the peripheral opening of the radial chamber in the large exhaust chamber.

The document JP 2008/207099 describes a device in which the liquid is introduced axially into a blind hole and is evacuated by divergent frustoconical radial channels arranged in the wall of the blind hole, away from the bottom. It is in fact, in each frustoconical radial channel diverging from a Venturi type operation, axially to this channel.

The present invention aims to produce a particular cavitation capable of improving the mechanical and / or chemical and / or bacteriological and / or micro-organisms on the compound or compounds carried in a liquid to be treated.

For this, the present invention is based on cavitation which causes the formation of bubbles or pockets of vapor in a liquid under the effect of depressions and in which the bubbles or pockets of vapor produced during this depression then condense abruptly when the pressure is rising. Under certain conditions, this rapid condensation, also called collapse, takes place in times of for example between one tenth of a second and one microsecond depending on the initial size of the bubble or pocket, this reaction being able to be fast enough for the gases are compressed and heat up to higher temperatures for example at 2000 ⁰ C, thus producing a plasma. It is thus that the present invention seeks in particular to increase the combined effects of the intense turbulence prevailing in the collapse zone of bubbles or cavitation pockets and very high speeds of the wall of the latter; and / or to increase the effects resulting from the plasma produced in the bubbles or cavitation pockets and capable in particular of producing radiation in the liquid; and / or destroying compounds present in bubbles or cavitation pockets; and / or generating the production of molecules, ions or species or chemical radicals capable of migrating into the liquid and acting on the compounds that the liquid carries; and / or to produce intense sound waves in the liquid.

The present invention firstly relates to a method of treating a compound, such as a chemical compound and / or organic and / or a microorganism, carried by a liquid. This method is such that two substantially radial faces disposed opposite one another delimit between them a radial cavitation chamber, one of said faces having an axial inlet orifice arranged axially in its central part and said faces forming a peripheral opening. Release ; the liquid, fed axially through the axial inlet orifice, is deflected and flows into said radial cavitation chamber in various radial directions towards the peripheral exit opening; and that the thickness of said cavitation chamber (18) between said radial faces is chosen to be between 0.1 and 0.25 times the diameter of said axial inlet orifice, preferably 0, 14.

Thus, the liquid flow conditions generate bubbles or pockets of cavitation in the first portion of the radial flow around the central inlet port. Also, bubbles or cavitation pockets implode before reaching the peripheral exit opening, in order to at least partially treat said compound in said cavitation chamber.

The distance between the axis of said central inlet port and said peripheral opening of said cavitation chamber may be chosen to be greater than twice the diameter of said central inlet port.

The ratio between the absolute pressure upstream of said cavitation chamber and the pressure downstream of this chamber may be between 1, 5 and 6. The present invention also relates to a device for treating at least one compound, such as a chemical compound and / or organic and / or a micro-organic, transported by a liquid.

This device comprises a first element having a substantially radial face and a substantially axial inlet of the liquid inlet and a second element having a substantially radial face.

Said radial faces are arranged vis-à-vis so as to form therebetween a space forming a radial cavitation chamber having a peripheral exit opening, said axial orifice input of the first element opening into a central portion of the cavitation chamber opposite said radial face of the second element.

The thickness of said cavitation chamber, between said radial faces, is between 0.1 and 0.25 times the diameter of said axial inlet orifice, preferably 0, 14.

Thus, the liquid, brought axially through the axial inlet orifice, is deflected in the central inlet portion and flows into said radial cavitation chamber in various radial directions towards the peripheral exit opening and the conditions of the the liquid flow generates bubbles or pockets of cavitation in the first part of this flow, around the central inlet orifice, and that the bubbles or cavitation pockets implode before reaching the peripheral exit opening, to at least partially treat said compound.

Said radial faces delimiting said radial cavitation chamber may be parallel.

The distance between the axis of the central inlet orifice and said peripheral opening of said cavitation chamber may be greater than twice the diameter of said central inlet orifice.

Said peripheral outlet opening of said radial cavitation chamber may communicate with a secondary chamber connected to at least one outlet passage.

Another processing means may be associated with said secondary chamber, in particular an emission means generating ultraviolet radiation in said secondary chamber.

The first element and the second element may comprise two walls forming between them a space, one of the walls having a plurality of liquid inlet ports and the other wall having a plurality of outlet orifices, so as to forming in said space and between said inlet ports and said outlet ports a plurality of cavitation chambers.

The inlet ports may open into an inlet manifold and the outlets may open into the inlet manifold. an outlet collecting chamber, said walls being annular and concentric, preferably cylindrical or concentric, or flat.

Said first element may have a chamfer on the edge of said axial inlet orifice, this chamfer can be rounded and have a radius of between 0.1 and 0.5 times the distance between said radial faces in the central part of the chamber. cavitation or be frustoconical being disposed at an angle of between 30 ° and 60 °, preferably at 45 °, and a height, along the axis of said axial inlet port, between 0, 1 and 0.5 times the distance between said radial faces in the central portion of the cavitation chamber.

The present invention will be better understood in the study of cavitation chamber treatment devices, described by way of nonlimiting examples and illustrated by the drawing in which:

- Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section of a treatment device;

- Figure 2 shows a cross section along H-II of the processing device of Figure 1; FIG. 3 represents an enlarged radial section of the cavitation chamber of the treatment device of FIG. 1;

- Figure 4 shows a longitudinal section of an alternative embodiment of the treatment device;

FIG. 5 represents a radial section along V-V of the processing device of FIG. 4;

- Figure 6 shows a longitudinal section of a variant of the treatment device;

FIG. 7 represents an internal side view of the processing device of FIG. 6; - Figure 8 shows an enlarged radial section of the central portion of the cavitation chamber, according to an alternative embodiment; and - Figure 9 shows an enlarged radial section of the central portion of the cavitation chamber, according to another embodiment.

A treatment device 1 represented in FIGS. 1 to 3 comprises a casing 2 which comprises two opposite shells 3 and 4 having a vertical axis 5 and delimiting between them a radial cavity

6 which is formed between an annular radial face 7 of the shell 3 and an annular radial face 8 of the shell 4. The shells 3 and 4 may be identical and placed opposite to each other. In the radial cavity 6 is disposed a spacer 9 which comprises a disk 10 which has a radial face 1 1 resting on the annular radial face 7 of the shell 3 and which comprises a cylindrical peripheral portion 12 projecting from the disk 10 and resting on the annular radial face 8 of the shell 4. The shells 3 and 4 have adjacent peripheral portions 13 and 14 connected by bolts 15 to fix them and maintain the supports above.

An annular sealing gasket 16 is installed between the periphery of the cylindrical peripheral portion 12 of the spacer 9 and the periphery of the cavity 6, in the annular zone of the radial faces vis-à-vis the adjacent peripheral parts 13 and 14 hulls 3 and 4.

Within its annular radial face 7, the shell 3 (first element) has a recess 17 which delimits, with the radial face 11 of the disk 10 (second element), a cavitation chamber 18, the bottom 19 of the recess 17 extending radially, parallel to the radial face 1 1 of the disc 10.

The shell 3 has an axial passage 20 which has a central terminal orifice 21, for example cylindrical, which opens axially into the central portion of the cavitation chamber 18, through the radial face constituted by the bottom 19 of the recess 17 In the passage 20 is engaged and sealingly attached the end of the conduit 22 for supplying a liquid 23, for example by an annular gland system 24. The shell 4 has an axial passage 25 which opens axially, for example through a central terminal orifice 26, in the central part of the secondary chamber 27 formed in the spacer 9, opposite the radial cavitation chamber 18. the passage 25 is engaged and sealingly attached to the end of the liquid discharge duct 28, for example by an annular gland system 29.

The disk 10 of the spacer 9 has a plurality of through passages 30 which open on the one hand in the periphery of the radial cavitation chamber 18 and on the other hand in the secondary chamber 27. The through passages 30 are regularly distributed over a circumference so as to constitute a peripheral outlet opening of the radial cavitation chamber 18. These through passages 30 may be formed by cylindrical holes or circumferential slots.

Thus, the liquid 23, supplied by the supply duct 22, is introduced into the central portion of the radial cavitation chamber 18 through the central orifice 21, then is deflected radially in this central portion, then flows into the radial cavitation chamber 18 in various radial directions towards the peripheral outlet opening formed by the through passages 30. Then, the liquid from the through passages 30 is collected in the secondary chamber 27, then discharged through the exhaust duct 28.

The conditions of the radial flow of the liquid 23 in the radial cavitation chamber 18, from the central inlet orifice 21 to the peripheral through passages 30, are such that this flow is hydrodynamic, that bubbles or cavitation pockets 31 appear in the first part of this flow, around the central inlet orifice 21, then collapse or implode immediately before, preferably well before, that these bubbles or cavitation pockets 31 reach the through passages output devices 30.

The phenomenon of creation and collapse of bubbles or pockets of cavitation results from the effects of depressions followed immediately overpressures. During the creation of the bubbles, gases dissolved in the liquid tend to be released in these bubbles. During the collapse, an adiabatic compression occurs which generates very high temperatures and very high pressures in the imploding bubbles. The cavitation produced is a hydrodynamic cavitation which results from the acceleration of the flow due to a decrease in its passage section followed by a gradual increase of said passage section in a quasi radial direction. This cavitation makes it possible to create a very sudden rise in pressure in the zone of condensation or collapse, which has the effect of increasing the intensity of the effects described above for a given flow rate. In addition, the particular form of this device is that the phenomenon is produced with a loss of pressure and therefore a minimum energy expenditure.

The cavitation pockets or cavities 31 may comprise a pocket or annular main bubble very close to the inlet orifice.

21 and glued to or located against the radial face 19 of the shell 3, supplied with gas dissolved by the liquid that flows. This annular main pocket or bubble is divided into smaller sized pockets or bubbles that move away from the center of the chamber and condense, collapse, or implode.

With the treatment device 1, the cavitation bubbles or cavities 31 produced are able to at least partially treat the compound or compounds transported by the liquid. This treatment can be of a chemical, thermal, chemical and thermal order and / or possibly sonic order because the cavitation phenomenon can possibly produce sonic waves radiating in the liquid.

The formation against the wall 19 and the collapse of the bubbles or vapor pockets 31 can be located in a virtually predetermined manner and / or can be controlled. Because of the adapted thickness of the radial cavitation chamber 18 with respect to the cavitation bubbles or cavities 31 produced, the cavitation concerns all the liquid to be treated flowing in this chamber 18. In the case where the liquid such as water carries a chemical compound or compounds, specific chemical radicals or species can be formed in cavitation bubbles 3 1 produced and collapsing, these specific chemical radicals or species being suitable for react with these chemical compounds and produce other compounds.

The chemical effects can produce the destruction of compounds present in the bubbles, generally volatile compounds initially dissolved in the liquid by production of molecules, ions or radicals able to migrate in the liquid and to have an action on the compounds that it transported. Among these actions, the oxidation by OH ° radicals makes it possible to destroy dissolved molecules that are difficult to eliminate.

In the case where the liquid such as water carries one or more microorganisms, the cavitation bubbles 31 produced can make it possible to attack these microorganisms and / or films or clusters of the latter, to destroy them, to disperse or dislocate them by chemical, mechanical or intense pressure waves.

The flow conditions of the liquid in the cavitation chamber 18 of the treatment device 1 may result from a subsequent dimensioning.

The thickness of the cavitation chamber 18 between the opposite radial faces 7 and 19 may be between 0.1 and 0.25 times the diameter of the central supply orifice 21.

The thickness of the cavitation chamber 18 may in particular be equal to 0.14 times the diameter of the central supply orifice 21.

The distance between the axis 5 of the central supply orifice 21 and the circumference on which is formed the peripheral opening of the cavitation chamber 18 determined by the through passages 30 may be greater than 2.5 times the diameter of the central supply port 21

The ratio of the inlet pressure to the outlet pressure may be in the range of 1.5 to 6.

In an exemplary embodiment, the diameter of the supply orifice 21 may be equal to 8 mm, the thickness of the chamber of cavitation 18 may be equal to 1, 12 mm, the distance between the axis 5 of the central supply orifice 21 and the circumference on which is formed the peripheral opening of the cavitation chamber 18 determined by the through passages 30 may be equal to 30 mm. According to an alternative embodiment shown in FIG. 8, said first element 3 may have a rounded bevel 21 arranged on the edge of the axial inlet orifice 21 and joining the face 17. This rounded bevel 21 may have a radius r between 0, 1 and 0.5 times the distance between the radial faces 1 1 and 19 in the central portion of the cavitation chamber 18.

According to another variant embodiment shown in FIG. 9, said first element 3 may have a frustoconical bevel 21b arranged on the edge of the axial inlet orifice 21. This frustoconical bevel 21b may be arranged at an angle of between 30.degree. ° and 60 °, preferably at 45 °. Its height h, along the axis of the axial inlet orifice 21, can be between 0, 1 and 0.5 times the distance between the radial faces 1 1 and 19 in the central part of the cavitation chamber 18. .

The chamfers 21a or 21b may facilitate the formation of the cavitation pocket 31 at their periphery.

Referring to FIGS. 4 and 5, it can be seen that another processing device 100 has been shown which comprises a cylinder 101 (first element) which has a radial end face 102 in which a cylindrical recess 103 is formed and which comprises a circular disk 104 (second element) remotely engaged in the cylindrical recess 103 and fixed axially against three inner fingers 105 of a circular washer 106 resting on the radial end face 102 of the cylinder 101.

The stack constituted by the cylinder 101 and the circular washer 106 is engaged in the end of an outer cylindrical tube 107 so that the washer bears on an inner shoulder 108 of this tube 107. peripheral shoulder 109 and fixing screws 1 10 pass through this shoulder and are screwed into the cylindrical tube 107 to fix this stacking. An annular seal 1 1 1 seals between said stack and the cylindrical tube 107.

The circular disc 104 is placed in the cylindrical recess

103 so that a radial face 1 12 of this disc 104 and the radial bottom 103a of this recess 103 form between them a cavitation chamber 1 13 of constant thickness and that the periphery of the disc 104 and the periphery of the recess 103 define between them an annular through passage 1 14 defining a peripheral opening of the cavitation chamber 1 13 and opening inside the tube 107, between the inner fingers 105 of the circular washer 106.

In order to ensure a constant thickness of the cavitation chamber 1 13, the radial bottom 103 a of the recess 103 is provided with projecting bosses 103b against which the radial face 1 12 of the disc

104 is supported, these bosses 103b are placed at the periphery so as not to interfere with the flow of the liquid. The bosses 103b also center the disc 104 in the recess 103.

The cylinder 101 has an axial passage 1 15 which has a central central orifice 1 16, for example cylindrical, which opens axially in the central part of the cavitation chamber 1 13. In the passage 1 15 is screwed a tip 1 17 in which is fixed sealingly the end of the conduit 1 18 for supplying a liquid.

The structure thus formed is such that the cavitation chamber 13 is equivalent to the cavitation chamber 18 of the treatment device 1. The treatment device 100 may advantageously be followed by another treatment device 100a as described below.

The other end of the cylindrical tube 107 is closed by a radial wall January 19 and has a lateral outlet opening 120 in the vicinity of this wall January 19. A conduit not shown can be connected to the outlet side opening 120 to evacuate the treated liquid.

The wall 1 19 is penetrated in a sealed manner, thanks to a seal 1 19a held by a sleeve January 19b by an inner axial cylindrical tube 121, for example quartz, a closed end 122 is located at near the circular disc 104, the inner fingers 105 of the circular washer 106 being extended by lugs 123 for centering and holding the end 122 of the inner cylindrical tube 121.

The inner tube 121 is connected to known means, not shown, capable of generating in this tube 121 ultraviolet radiation radiating in the annular chamber 124 formed between the outer tube 107 and the inner tube 120.

Thus, a liquid such as water carrying one or more compounds to be treated is, in a first step, treated by the treatment device 100 and immediately, in a second step, treated by the treatment device 100a, in the chamber annular secondary 124 by the ultraviolet radiation generated by the inner tube 120, then discharged through the outlet side opening 120. The radiation radiates throughout the annular secondary chamber 124. The disk 104 being quartz, the radiation can also reach the passage 1 through 14 and the cavitation chamber 13.

Such an arrangement is particularly advantageous when it is a question of destroying microorganisms transported by water in order to treat it and to make it less polluted. Alternatively, the means for generating radiation could be placed around the outer tube 107.

As a variant illustrated in Figures 6 and 7, a processing device 200 comprises an inner cylindrical wall 201 and an outer cylindrical wall 202, which are concentric and which delimit between them a cylindrical space 203 of constant thickness closed at its ends by any known means.

The inner cylindrical wall 201 has a plurality of inlet orifices 204 opening on the one hand in the space 203 and on the other hand in the interior space 205 of this wall 201, this inner space 205 forming a longitudinal collector chamber entrance.

The outer cylindrical wall 202 has a plurality of outlet orifices 206 opening on the one hand in the space 203 and on the other hand in a peripheral space 207 delimited by a wall cylindrical peripheral 208, the peripheral space 207 forming an annular longitudinal outlet collector chamber.

The outlet orifices 206 are distributed around and away from the inlet orifices 204 so as to form a plurality of substantially radial cavitation chambers 209 with substantially parallel flows, functioning respectively as the cavitation chambers described in the preceding examples.

In the example shown, as shown more specifically in FIG. 7, the inlet orifices 204 are distributed at equal distances from each other, around the inner cylindrical wall 201 and longitudinally to the latter, and the outlet orifices 206 are distributed at equal distances from each other, all around the outer cylindrical wall 202 and longitudinally to the latter, being offset by a half-step relative to the inlet ports 204, circumferentially and longitudinally. The outlet orifices 206 advantageously have sections much larger than the sections of the inlet orifices 204.

In the example shown, as shown more precisely in FIG. 6, the internal space 205 forming an inlet collecting chamber is closed at one end by a radial wall 205a and can communicate at its other end with an axial duct of FIG. 210 input adapted to be connected to a source of liquid to be treated. The peripheral space 207 forming an outlet collecting chamber is closed at one end by an annular wall 207a and can communicate with an axial outlet duct 21 1 for the liquid treated in parallel in the cavitation chambers 209, this axial outlet duct 21 1 being opposed to the axial inlet conduit 210. The inner and outer cylindrical walls 201 and 202 are carried at one end by the wall 205a and at the other end by the wall 207a, sealingly through annular joints 205b and 207b.

In other variants, the walls 201 and 202 could have other annular shapes, for example be frustoconical, or could be flat. In another variant, treatment devices, according to any one of those just described, could be put in series, the liquid outlet of one being in communication with the liquid inlet of the next.

Claims

A method of treating a compound, such as a chemical and / or organic compound and / or a microorganism, carried by a liquid, wherein two substantially radial faces (1 1, 19) disposed facing a -vis define between them a radial cavitation chamber (18), one of said faces having an axial inlet orifice (21) arranged axially in its central portion and said faces forming a peripheral outlet opening (30); wherein the liquid, fed axially through the axial inlet orifice (21), is deflected and flows into said radial cavitation chamber (18) in various radial directions towards the peripheral exit opening (30); and wherein the thickness of said cavitation chamber (18) between said radial faces (1 1, 19) is chosen to be between 0.1 and 0.25 times the diameter of said axial inlet port.

(21), preferentially 0, 14; such that the liquid flow conditions generate bubbles or pockets of cavitation (31) in the first portion of the radial flow around the central inlet port (21) and that the bubbles or pockets cavitation (31) implants prior to reaching the peripheral exit opening (30) to at least partially treat said compound in said cavitation chamber (18).

The method according to claim 1, wherein the distance between the axis (5) of the central inlet port (21) and said peripheral opening of said cavitation chamber (18) is chosen to be greater than twice the diameter of said central inlet orifice (21).

3. Method according to one of claims 1 and 2, wherein the ratio between the absolute pressure upstream of said cavitation chamber (18) and the pressure downstream of this chamber is between 1, 5 and 6.

A device for treating at least one compound, such as a chemical and / or organic compound and / or a microorganism, carried by a liquid, comprising: a first member (3) having a substantially radial face (18); ) and a substantially axial inlet opening (21) for the liquid inlet and a second element (10) having a substantially radial face (11), in which said radial faces are arranged facing each other so as to form between them a space forming a radial cavitation chamber (18) having a peripheral exit opening (30), said axial inlet orifice of the first element opening into a central portion of this cavitation chamber (18) facing said radial face (11). ) of the second element (10); the thickness of said cavitation chamber (18) between said radial faces (11, 19) is between 0.1 and 0.25 times the diameter of said axial input orifice (21), preferably 0.14; such that the liquid, fed axially through the axial inlet orifice (21), is deflected in the central inlet portion and flows into said radial cavitation chamber (18) in various radial directions towards the outlet peripheral opening (30) and such that the liquid flow conditions generate bubbles or cavitation pockets (31) in the first portion of this flow, around the central inlet port (21) , and that cavitation bubbles or pockets (31) implode before reaching the peripheral exit opening (30), in order to at least partially treat said compound.

5. Device according to claim 4, wherein said radial faces (11, 19) delimiting said radial cavitation chamber (18) are parallel.

6. Device according to one of claims 4 and 5, wherein the distance between the axis (5) of the central inlet orifice (21) and said peripheral opening of said cavitation chamber (18) is greater than twice the diameter of said central inlet orifice (21).

7. Device according to any one of claims 4 to 6, wherein said peripheral outlet opening of said radial cavitation chamber (18) communicates with a secondary chamber (124) connected to at least one outlet passage (120).

8. Device according to claim 7, comprising another processing means (121) associated with said secondary chamber, in particular a transmission means generating ultraviolet radiation in said secondary chamber.

9. Device according to any one of claims 7 to 8, wherein the first element and the second element comprise two walls (201, 202) between them a space, one of the walls having a plurality of orifices (204, 202). ) of the liquid inlet and the other wall having a plurality of outlet orifices (206) so as to form, in said space and between said inlet and outlet orifices, a plurality of cavitation chambers. (209).

Apparatus according to claim 9, wherein said inlet ports open into an inlet collecting chamber (205) and the outlet openings open into an outlet collecting chamber (207), said walls being annular and concentric, preferably cylindrical or concentric, or flat.

1 1. Device according to any one of claims 4 to 10, wherein said first element (3) has a chamfer on the edge of said axial inlet orifice (21), this chamfer being rounded and having a radius between 0 , 1 and 0.5 times the distance between said radial faces (1 1, 19) in the central portion of the cavitation chamber (18) or being frustoconical by being disposed at an angle of between 30 ° and 60 °, preferably at 45 °, and over a height, along the axis of said axial input port (21), between 0, 1 and 0.5 times the distance between said radial faces (1 1, 19) in the central part of the cavitation chamber (18).